The frame that ended up on the cover. Two friends on the sand, palms and beach-front houses behind them, dressed the way they actually dress.It sets the terms for the rest of the book: no styling imposed from outside, no Hollywood backdrop, just Angelenos photographed where they already were.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

The cover frame, photographed on the sand in Los Angeles.

Cover Photo

Bleached hair, purple lenses, a mohair cardigan worn over a plain white tank, and silver cowboy boots on the concrete apron of a pool.Like every subject in the book, Anthony was photographed in his own clothes, in a place he already knew, rather than in a studio.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

Bleached crop, mohair cardigan and silver cowboy boots, photographed poolside against weathered shingle.

Anthony Cataldo

A leather racing jacket on Hollywood Boulevard, brass stars underfoot and a souvenir window stacked with posters behind her.It is the tourist Los Angeles most people picture, occupied by somebody who actually lives here. That gap is much of what the book is about.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

Photographed with her dog on the Walk of Fame, in front of a Hollywood Boulevard souvenir window.

Danib

A lilac feather stole, pale blue jeans and bare feet on brick, shot in the doorway shade of a dark-painted house.One of more than 120 portraits made across the city for the book, from canyon houses to storefronts and sidewalks.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

A lilac feather stole over pale blue jeans, barefoot on a brick path outside a dark-painted house.

Jesse Jo Stark

Green monogram puffer, hand-painted trousers, a tan attache case set down on the sidewalk, and a frosted storefront window bleached out by afternoon sun.Nothing here was borrowed for the shoot. The clothes are his, the corner is his, and the picture is made at eye level.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

Green monogram puffer, hand-painted trousers and a tan attache case, framed against a bleached storefront.

A black leather vest, driving gloves, and a car parked tight against a whitewashed wall under red corrugated steel.The book runs from musicians and artists to designers and skaters, and the pictures give all of them the same amount of room.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jasmine-Benjamin-Angels-about-L/dp/8862088353" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Buy City of Angels</a>

Black leather vest, driving gloves and a Maybach, shot under a red carport awning.

City of Angels — a book about L.A. style by Jasmine Benjamin